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Abelian Chern-Simons theory as the strong large-mass limit of topologicallymassive abelian gauge theory: the Wilson loop

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1994-01-24
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We show that the renormalized vacuum expectation value of he Wilson loop for topologically massive abelian gauge theory in R3 can be defined so that its large-mass limit is the renormalized vacuum expectation value of the Wilson loop for abelian Chern-Simons theory also in R3.
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Copyright © 1994 Published by Elsevier B.V. FRR was supported by FOM, The Netherlands. The authors are also grateful to CICyT, Spain for partial support.
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